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‘One Voice’ – Salinas mural of the week

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12:03 a.m. PDT June 18, 2014

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This "One Voice" Arts & Leadership Program mural, on the side of the Walgreens Pharmacy at 575 North Sanborn Road in Salinas, is easy to miss as one drives by. According to the informative plaque next to the work, the muralist and Salinas youth were asked to envision "the uses of medicine in the next century." The mural "depicts the history of the use of pharmaceutical medicine from traditional herbal remedies to the science of biotechnology. It illustrates a futuristic approach to healing and medicine, including the innovation of new computer-assisted pharmaceutical technology." The project was part of the Monterey County Summer Youth employment Training Program of 1999. The work was designed by Guillermo Aranda and Trudy Karl, supervised by Aranda, with muralist Lorena Castillo, assistant muralist Pedro Ortega, and youth muralists Neri Carrasco, Guillermo De La Rocha, Arturo Martinez, Maria Moreno, Cesar Mosqueda, and Ligia Uc.
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This “One Voice” Arts & Leadership Program mural, on the side of the Walgreens Pharmacy at 575 North Sanborn Road in Salinas, is easy to miss as one drives by.

According to the informative plaque next to the work, the muralist and Salinas youth were asked to envision “the uses of medicine in the next century.”

The mural “depicts the history of the use of pharmaceutical medicine from traditional herbal remedies to the science of biotechnology. It illustrates a futuristic approach to healing and medicine, including the innovation of new computer-assisted pharmaceutical technology.”

The project was part of the Monterey County Summer Youth employment Training Program of 1999. The work was designed by Guillermo Aranda and Trudy Karl, supervised by Aranda, with muralist Lorena Castillo, assistant muralist Pedro Ortega, and youth muralists Neri Carrasco, Guillermo De La Rocha, Arturo Martinez, Maria Moreno, Cesar Mosqueda and Ligia Uc.